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"A Right to Help Make the Laws": Helen Piotopowaka Clarke, Virginia Billedeaux, and Blackfeet Empowerment
In September 1914, the Suffrage Daily News of Montana interviewed Blackfeet activist Virginia Billedeaux, asking whether women in Indian country supported suffrage.
November 2019
Man or Myth, Who was Wild Bill Hickok?
In the early afternoon of 2 August 1876, James Butler (“Wild Bill”) Hickok arrived late to a poker game at Mann’s Saloon No. 10 in Deadwood, South Dakota.
November 2019